A re-issue of this charming, episodic memoir of the great illustrator’s early life, filled with his sketches; he himself called it “an autobiographical fragment”. Published here in a pocket-sized ‘Plain Foxed’ clothbound edition.
The Young Ardizzone
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£20.00
Edition:Hardback978191089872701/12/2022From a Bookshelf nearby
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Brought up in North Carolina in the Jim Crow era, AT won a postgraduate scholarship to Brown University, worked at Warhol's Factory and volunteered for Diana Vreeland. He went on to become e... read more
The Chiffon Trenches
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A memoir by the great Hungarian pianist, addressing concerns such as communism and anti-Semitism alongside piano technique and musical interpretation.
Music Comes Out of Silence: A Memoir
Hardback £20.00 -
Simms and Medd were part of the mass-release of Allied prisoners when Italy surrendered in 1943. Their escape story - and the bravery and kindness of the Italians who helped them on their ... read more
The Long Walk Home: An Escape in Wartime Italy
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A comic masterpiece of a memoir: the subject, chiefly, is the Irish filmmaker Brian Desmond Hurst, who once described himself as tri-sexual - "the Army, the Navy and the Household Cavalry"..... read more